moved: Godless Linguistics!

[(but am flattered anyway)]

This is an old post from the talk.origins newsgroup. I am posting it here because this issue should be of pressing importance to every Christian at this university, since the way it is resolved will determine the course of education here over our next hundred years. And the educational system will be the most important battleground in the neverending war over the citizens our great nation's souls.

From: 2DAVIS@msn.com (Gail Davis)
Subject: Godless Linguistics!
Date: 1996/12/24
Message-ID: <00002182+00014f65@msn.com>#1/1
organization: The Microsoft Network (msn.com)
newsgroups: talk.origins



To all t.o. readers,

Clearly, we can see the very structure of our civilization crumbling
around our ears. Sexual perversion runs rampant as our once-proud
moral culture slides ever closer to the gaping maw of oblivion. One
need only turn on the TV to witness ample evidence of the degradation
of our current Godless society, slipping closer to destruction with
the wanton disregard for proper diction, and the torrid abomination
of corrupted grammar!

Why, just listen to the "music" of the young people these days. Such
trash! The words slur together (when they can be understood at all)
into a putrid mush of incomplete sentences and split infinitives.
It's awful. And it has been PROVEN to induce young people to commit
acts of violence, theft, and unwed pregnancy. And surely, it is no
mere coincidence that this dire threat to the fabric of our very
civilization coincides exactly with the indoctrination of our young
people with Godless LINGUISTICS in the public schools.

Our public schools have turned away from the source of Truth, to
teach our children that our sacred English language has descended
from other languages. The poor impressionable youngsters are taught
AS A FACT that English words have certain "root words", even though
this is only a theory. The FACT is, God Almighty created all
languages complete when he confused mankind's original language as
punishment for our transgression at the tower of Babel. But the
athiest/lingusts don't want this mentioned in public settings,
because it goes against their FAITH, and forces them to face their
own accountability. So they have BANNED the teaching of Babelism,
because they are afraid that it might expose the weakness of their
own linguistic ideas. Is this fair? I don't think so. It goes
against all that America stands for.

Therefore, join me in the campaign to have a balanced and fair
treatment in public education. All english teachers should be
required to include Babelism as a valid alternate theory to
Linguisticism, whenever the origins of the English language is
discussed.

Oh, of course we can expect opposition from the entrenched vested
interests. They will point to certain similarities (i.e. "mother",
"madre" "mater") as evidence of the relatedness of various languages.
But this is a complete misinterpretation of the evidence. Clearly
it is more economical for God to use similar phonic structures to
designate similar meanings. Therefore, the existence of such
similarities PROOVES that the various languages must have had the
same author.

Second, a language is a complex thing. The odds that some first
speaker could randomly string together a complex series of sounds,
and then multiply this by the odds that someone else would UNDERSTAND
him, and the probablity could be calculated to be less than 1 in
10^500. That's a one with five hundred zero's. A statistical
impossibility. Obviously, the first language must have a designer:
God.

Third, there is NO evidence that transitional languages ever existed.
What use is half a language? A noun without verbs conveys no
meaning! Sure, there is middle and old- English. But these are
ENGLISH! A complete nontransitional language. We do not deny that
micro-lingustics can happen, but this process can create only
DIALECTS. There is NO EVIDENCE that a series of random
micro-lingustic events can create a WHOLE NEW LANGUAGE. I'll beleive
in Macro-linguistics when I see a video tape of a child growing up in
an Eskimo village suddenly become fluent in Armenian! It takes A LOT
MORE FAITH to beleive in athieistic linguisticism than the truth of
Babelism.

So join me in the crusade: Babelism must be included in the public
school English curriculum.

There are only two theories which explain the origin of our language:
Babelism and Linguisticism. Shouldn't they BOTH be given a fair
hearing?

Thank you.

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[in_vince_able]

I'm a Christian and I think that's an interesting idea, but I have to admit... why is that here in this post? Why isn't that in the general topics or something? And if you're going to post something like that, why not use a real name instead of an anonymous one and actually get some feedback?

[Sam]

thanks V, it has been moved